And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 20:07:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Spaulding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: International URL and help wanted. Here is the 3d Progress Report of "Discrimination Against Indigenous People" by Miguel Martinez, Special Rapporteur, Commission on Human Rights. It gives a unique perspective on FIL from an international perspective. He uses this passage from de Toqueville as illustrative: 20. In a not-too-often-cited passage of his De la démocratie en Amérique, Alexis de Tocqueville - who witnessed Indian removal in the United States in the 1830s - expressed his views on this ethnic cleansing of the United States Southeast and other aspects of the young republic's Indian policy, in the following manner: "The Spaniards let their dogs loose on the Indians as if these were savage beasts; they pillage the New World as if it were a city taken by storm, pitilessly and sparing no one whatsoever. But one cannot destroy everything, fury hath its limits: the rest of the indigenous populations, those who escaped the massacres, finish by melding with their conquerors and adopting their religion and customs. Conversely, the behaviour of the Americans from the United States vis-à-vis the Indians is redolent of the purest devotion to formalities and legality. In view of the fact that the Indians continue to be in the state of savagery, the Americans do not interfere in their affairs, and treat them as independent peoples; they would not allow themselves to seize Indian lands without having previously acquired them by means of a contract. And if by any chance an Indian nation can no longer live on its own territory, [the Americans] fraternally take them by the hands and lead them to die outside the lands of their ancestors. The Spaniards, by means of unprecedented monstrosities which cover them with unforgivable shame, have been capable neither of annihilating the Indian race, nor of completely depriving [the Indians] of their rights. The Americans of the United States have achieved both goals with marvellous ease; quietly, legally, philanthropically, without blood-letting, without flouting, in the eyes of the rest of the world, any of the great principles of morality. One would be incapable of destroying men in a fashion more in accordance with the laws of humanity." <8> (emphasis added) http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu4/subrep/9623.htm I am preparing an online paper and need an HTML editor which takes a Word to HTML and translates footnotes into hot links. Suggestions? Advice? The Word I am using now totally loses footnotes. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com <<<< To remove your name from this list send a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with the message "unsubscribe triballaw" >>>> &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
